Classic Poetry Aloud
Podcast
Classic Poetry Aloud gives voice to poetry through podcast recordings of the great poems of the...
Wonderland: Alice in Poetry
Book
In Wonderland: Alice in Poetry you will find all the brilliant poems from Alice's Adventures in...
Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets
Book
This is an anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar,...
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Sam (74 KP) rated Poems to Live Your Life By in Books
Mar 27, 2019
The collection is just beautiful. Each poem has individual illustrations surrounding it, bringing the poem to life.
Even though I dislike poetry as a whole, there are a few poems that I love, and some of them were in this collection, including Digging by Seamus Heaney and Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Even though I have read these poems multiple times, the illustrations made them feel new to me, because it almost gave a new interpretation to them.
I also discovered some poems that I hadn’t heard of before and now love, including Thirteen by Kate Tempest, and Safe Sounds by Carol Ann Duffy.
This is definitely a book to buy for the poetry lover in your life!
Dana (24 KP) rated Howl and Other Poems in Books
Mar 23, 2018
I had previously read "Howl" and "A Supermarket in California" which I very much enjoyed. The other poems, being new to me, I thoroughly enjoyed.
Ginsberg has a very interesting writing style that is very vivid. I love how he speaks directly to his fellow poets in some of his poems. In writing them in, he is giving them an even greater form of immortality.
I enjoyed the poem "America." It's asking the citizens of America what the war is worth, but America is also asking things of him that he wouldn't be able to live up to. He questions his own writing in this as well.
Ginsberg has a very musical beat to his poems that makes you have to keep reading. It pulls you along, especially when you read it out loud.
Overall, I very much enjoyed this little book of poems.
The Eve of St Agnes
Book
'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse -...
Chasers of the Light
Book
I would love to say that you make me weak at the knees, but to be quite upfront and completely...